Top Stories: Copenhagen, Dec 18 (IANS) As the stormy Dec 7-18 climate summit headed for a climax, it has readied deals on how to pay countries to stop deforestation and to set up regional centres for transfer of green technology to developing countries, a senior UN official said. IANS Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:30:02 -0500Copenhagen, Dec 18 (IANS) The Dec 7-18 climate summit has readied deals on how to pay countries to stop deforestation and to set up regional centres for transfer of green technology to developing countries, a senior UN official said. IANS Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:30:01 -0500London, Dec 17 : A man who allegedly uploaded a leaked copy of X-Men Origins: Wolverine over the Internet just a month before its release has been taken into custody by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in New York. ANI Thu, 17 Dec 2009 02:20:23 -0500London, Dec 17 (IANS) Hours after a judge banned her from having any contact with her daughter, Courtney Love took to the Internet to reach out to the teenager to request her not to be like Britney Spears' sister, who at 18 is an unmarried mother. IANS Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:20:02 -0500HOUSTON ? IBM Corp. is buying business software maker Lombardi Software Inc. from a private equity group for an undisclosed sum. Austin, Texas-based Lombardi helps organizations automate an... Sign on San Diego Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:47:28 -0500Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 4:27 p.m. Oracle Corp.'s latest quarterly numbers show that corporations' frozen technology budgets are thawing faster than expected. After four straight quarters of ... Sign on San Diego Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:47:25 -0500Oracle Corp. said Thursday that its profit jumped 12.5 percent in the latest quarter and that it expects the European Union will finally approve its $7.4 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems Inc. next... Miami Herald Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:34:48 -0500Oracle Corp.'s latest quarterly numbers show that corporations' frozen technology budgets are thawing faster than expected. After four straight quarters of declines, Oracle's revenue from new software... The Seattle Times Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:24:54 -0500One of the most beloved adventure series has a new chapter: The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks. Perfect for kids ages 10 and up, this Nintendo DS game is about exploration, heroism, and puzzle-solving... USA Today Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:20:16 -0500Millions of Americans are still feeling the effects of the recession. But that needn't take the shine off your Christmas. You can give thoughtful gifts that cost nothing — or next to nothing. USA Today Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:20:15 -0500Washington » The Obama administration named 18 projects Thursday that would receive a portion of the $7.4 billion in stimulus funds set aside to bring high-speed Internet to poor and rural areas... Salt Lake Tribune Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:19:32 -0500Web designer and developer Melanie Karlik holds a laptop displaying her website as she poses for a photograph in Vancouver, B.C., on Wednesday December 16, 2009. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck VANCOU... C News Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:17:23 -0500VANCOUVER — Just when you thought little Susie was surfing for news of Twilight or Johnny was looking for Lego parts comes the distressing news from Symantec that youngsters have put sex and porn am... Canada.com Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:17:04 -0500VANCOUVER — Just when you thought little Susie was surfing for news of Twilight or Johnny was looking for Lego parts comes the distressing news from Symantec that youngsters have put sex and porn am... Leader-Post Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:15:47 -0500Nam Yong as chief executive officer for a second term as the company seeks to extend its market-share gains in handsets and televisions. Nam, who has headed the Seoul-based company since 2007, wi... BusinessWeek Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:14:51 -0500RIMM ) surged in late trading after the BlackBerry maker forecast sales and profit that beat analysts' estimates as discounts helped boost demand for its Curve phone. Sales in the three months en... BusinessWeek Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:14:50 -0500SAN FRANCISCO: Lawyers for a small US technology firm said on Thursday it is suing Microsoft on the grounds its has prior claim to the name "Bing." Bing! Information Design (BID) filed suit in a ci... Times Of India Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:11:43 -0500Telstra says increasing competition in the broadband sector and very competitive mobile phone offers will result in "flattish" revenues in fiscal 2010. Australian IT Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:08:00 -0500ORACLE, with its acquisition of Sun Microsystems, doesn't plan to compete with high-volume, low-margin server makers like Dell, chief executive Larry Ellison said. Australian IT Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:07:57 -0500From its origins as a Web search engine, Google has branched in a number of directions, but traditionally those directions have still been software-oriented, and Web-centric. Most people would be shoc... InfoWorld Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:06:20 -05003 Recommendations If there was anything even vaguely comforting about the data breaches that were announced this year, it was that many of them stemmed from familiar and downright mundane security fai... InfoWorld Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:06:20 -05003 Recommendations Oracle reported on Thursday second-quarter earnings of $0.29 per share, a rise of 15 percent over the same period last year. Total revenues rose 4 percent to $5.9 billion and net inc... InfoWorld Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:06:19 -05003 Recommendations Palm's Project Ares, a browser-based development toolset for Palm webOS applications, has moved to a public beta stage, a Palm representative said on Thursday afternoon. Applications... InfoWorld Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:06:18 -0500LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - U.S. Internet retailer Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday that its Kindle electronic book reader posted its best sales yet in the month of December, as the battle for the digital ... Reuters Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:05:30 -0500SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Palm Inc reported a wider-than-expected quarterly loss as consumers cooled to its new smartphones in the face of fresh competition including devices based on Google Inc softw... Reuters Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:05:29 -0500HOUSTON - (Business Wire) Chemical Engineering, the leading global publication for the Chemical Process Industries (CPI), announced today that they will be producing the Chemical Engineering Technolog... Earth Times Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:04:23 -0500VANCOUVER — Just when you thought little Susie was surfing for news of Twilight or Johnny was looking for Lego parts comes the distressing news from Symantec that youngsters have put sex and porn am... Canada.com Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:03:25 -0500VANCOUVER — Just when you thought little Susie was surfing for news of Twilight or Johnny was looking for Lego parts comes the distressing news from Symantec that youngsters have put sex and porn am... Windsor Star Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:03:00 -0500NEW DELHI: Profitability and pricing for top Indian software companies such as TCS, Infosys Technologies , Wipro and HCL Technologies are expected to come under pressure from the new technology ser... Times of India Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:01:37 -0500(12-17) 14:14 PST SAN FRANCISCO -- In the heart of San Francisco's Nob Hill sits Huntington Park, an elegant town square and popular open space for residents of one of the city's swankiest neighborho... San Francisco Chronicle Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:54:31 -0500Gordon Brown said the conditions for a global climate deal are now in place after breakthroughs at the Copenhagen summit. The Prime Minister said a new finance offer from the US meant the UN summit ... Ananova Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:39:06 -0500Thousands of travellers stranded abroad by the collapse of airline Flyglobespan are trying to get back to Britain. As 800 staff with the Edinburgh-based airline faced losing their jobs, rival carrie... Ananova Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:39:06 -0500A heroin user who died in hospital has tested positive for anthrax. The patient, who has not been identified but is male, died at the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow on Wednesday. NHS Greater Glasgo... Ananova Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:39:05 -0500The Government has issued safety warnings as the heaviest snowfall of the season crept in. And the chances of a white Christmas continued to "hang in the balance", said experts. A light dusting ac... Ananova Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:39:04 -0500A man has been given a life prison term for the "honour killing" of his 15-year-old daughter more than a decade after she disappeared. Psychotic bully Mehmet Goren was told he must serve at least 22... Ananova Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:39:04 -0500One million air travellers have breathed a sigh of relief after a judge ruled that a planned 12-day Christmas strike by British Airways cabin crew could not go ahead. The airline won its legal chall... Ananova Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:39:03 -0500A police officer has been cleared of causing the death by careless driving of a 25-year-old woman. Pc Thomas Hart was responding to an emergency call when he lost control of his police van and hit a... Ananova Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:39:02 -0500Cheryl Cole has criticised the "mean campaign" threatening to keep her protege, Joe McElderry, out of the Christmas number one spot. The Girls Aloud star, who worked with her fellow Geordie on The X... Ananova Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:39:02 -0500Stephen Gately's former partner Andrew Cowles has formally lodged a complaint with the press standards watchdog over the Daily Mail's controversial article by Jan Moir. The article, published in the... Ananova Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:39:01 -0500-(Dow Jones)- Psystar Corp. is in the process of closing down its operations, a move that follows a court decision earlier in the week barring it from selling products already found to have violated... Morning Star Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:34:56 -0500NEW YORK (AP) -- Charges and expenses outweighed higher sales and drove video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. to post a wider fourth-quarter loss on Thursday, as billionaire activist... Tampa Bay Online Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:33:23 -0500Oracle Corp.'s latest quarterly numbers show that corporations' frozen technology budgets are thawing faster than expected. After four straight quarters of declines, Oracle's revenue from new software... Tampa Bay Online Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:33:21 -0500PARIS ? France's efforts to digitize its culture, from Marcel Proust's manuscripts to the first films of the legendary Lumiere brothers, long have been bogged down by the country's reluctance to... Sign on San Diego Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:43:49 -0500Friday, December 18, 2009 WASHINGTON: Iraqi militants have regularly used cheap and widely-available software to intercept the feeds of US-operated drones, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursda... The News Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:40:36 -0500A valid email address is required to allow State Journal to monitor comments and track users posting inappropriate comments. State Journal does not use these for any type of SPAM operation. State Journal Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:36:45 -0500Oracle Corp.'s latest quarterly numbers show that corporations' frozen technology budgets are thawing faster than expected. After four straight quarters of declines, Oracle's revenue from new software... Star Tribune Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:36:43 -0500PHOENIX, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Anthem College Online will begin offering two new degree programs, with a class start set for Feb. 1, 2010 for both programs. Anthem College Online will launch new Ass... RedOrbit Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:34:53 -0500The remarkable voices, songs and images in the recently released box set Alan Lomax in Haiti are a stunning, delightful treasure, a vivid portrait of a time and place. On the set's 10 discs average p... Miami Herald Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:30:47 -0500Autodesk, Inc . (NASDAQ:ADSK), has announced that its 3D modeling, animation and rendering software was a primary tool used by Ilion Animation Studios and Pyro Studios to help create the “... Fresh News Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:26:05 -0500Mutual funds that bet exclusively on technology stocks are the star performers of 2009.Tech sector funds are up an average 57 percent this year. That's more than twice the increase for the Standard & ... Examiner Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:25:50 -0500France's efforts to digitize its culture, from Marcel Proust's manuscripts to the first films of the legendary Lumiere brothers, long have been bogged down by the country's reluctance to rely on help ... Examiner Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:25:47 -0500France's efforts to digitize its culture, from Marcel Proust's manuscripts to the first films of the legendary Lumiere brothers, long have been bogged down by the country's reluctance to rely on help ... The Seattle Times Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:19:54 -0500PARIS - France's efforts to digitise its culture, from Marcel Proust's manuscripts to the first films of the legendary Lumiere brothers, long have been bogged down by the country's reluctance to r... New Zealand Herald Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:16:39 -0500By GREG KELLERAP BUSINESS WRITER PARIS -- France's efforts to digitize its culture, from Marcel Proust's manuscripts to the first films of the legendary Lumiere brothers, long have been bogged down... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:15:34 -0500Glowing lava flows out of the crater of Mayon volcano in Legazpi city, 500 km (310 miles) south of Manila December 16, 2009. The Philippines' most active volcano spewed ash as high as 500 metres and b... USA Today Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:14:50 -0500The results not only surpassed expectations for the third quarter, but its forecast for the current quarter easily topped what most analysts were anticipating.MKM Partners LLC analyst Tero Kuittinen s... CNN Money Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:12:45 -0500Washington (CNN) -- Insurgents were able to use a mass-market software program to view live feeds from U.S. military Predator drones monitoring targets in Iraq, a U.S. official indicated to CNN Thursd... CNN Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:12:37 -0500The journal Science has named the discovery of Ardi, a partial skeleton of a ground ape that lived 4.4 million years ago, as the scientific breakthrough of the year. CBC News Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:12:31 -0500—Oracle Corp., the world's second- largest software maker, reported profit that beat analysts' estimates after customers renewed annual support contracts. The shares climbed 3.5 percent in late ... BusinessWeek Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:09:19 -0500PARIS (AP) -- France's efforts to digitize its culture, from Marcel Proust's manuscripts to the first films of the legendary Lumiere brothers, long have been bogged down by the country's reluctance to... Associated Press Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:05:14 -0500TELSTRA'S rivals are concerned the Rudd government may baulk at breaking up the telco giant and risk upsetting its 1.4 million shareholders in an election year. Australian IT Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:02:43 -0500The NSW Rural Fire Service for the first time yesterday issued emergency alerts that went out via mobile phones and voice alerts to landlines in three locations across the state where fires raged out ... Australian IT Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:02:41 -0500FRANCE Telecom has revealed an ambitious cloud computing strategy that has signalled a dramatic shift in the company's enterprise telecommunications business. Australian IT Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:02:34 -0500TELSTRA warned today first-half sales revenue would be down on the year, and it cut its full-year guidance, pointing to a number of factors, including strong competition in its home market. Australian IT Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:02:29 -0500COMPETITORS in the Sydney to Hobart yacht race have been warned not to rely on GPS navigation devices to plot their boats' positions. Australian IT Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:02:23 -0500Recommend This Intel introduced on Thursday its next-generation of PC chips that could make laptops and desktops faster and more power efficient. New chips, including Core i3 and Core i5 processors, a... InfoWorld Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:00:58 -0500Extract Systems announces the deployment of ID Shield Redaction Software to redact the backfile of land records filed in Lake County, Illinois. ID Shield Redaction Software will redact Social Security... Earth Times Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:58:05 -0500There seems to be far more truth to the cliche that "Diamonds are a girl's best friend" than one might like to admit. Certainly the new exhibition opening this week, "Cartier and America," is evidence... San Francisco Chronicle Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:47:04 -0500TOKYO — The National Police Agency said Thursday it suspects eight computer servers in Japan were involved in a wave of cyber attacks in July against government and private sector websites in S... Japan Today Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:42:48 -0500Gordon Brown said the conditions for a global climate deal are now in place after breakthroughs at the Copenhagen summit. The Prime Minister said a new finance offer from the US meant the UN summit ... Ananova Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:32:12 -0500Thousands of travellers stranded abroad by the collapse of airline Flyglobespan are trying to get back to Britain. As 800 staff with the Edinburgh-based airline faced losing their jobs, rival carrie... Ananova Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:32:12 -0500A man has been given a life prison term for the "honour killing" of his 15-year-old daughter more than a decade after she disappeared. Psychotic bully Mehmet Goren was told he must serve at least 22... Ananova Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:32:11 -0500Cheryl Cole has criticised the "mean campaign" threatening to keep her protege, Joe McElderry, out of the Christmas number one spot. The Girls Aloud star, who worked with her fellow Geordie on The X... Ananova Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:32:10 -0500A heroin user who died in hospital has tested positive for anthrax. The patient, who has not been identified but is male, died at the Victoria Infirmary in Glasgow on Wednesday. NHS Greater Glasgo... Ananova Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:32:09 -0500The tech sector slipped into the red Thursday, swept up in a broader market retreat triggered by worries about higher jobless claims. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index (RIXF) fell by 1.2% to 2,... Morning Star Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:28:07 -0500PARIS (AP) -- France's efforts to digitize its culture, from Marcel Proust's manuscripts to the first films of the legendary Lumiere brothers, long have been bogged down by the country's reluctance to... Tampa Bay Online Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:26:45 -0500SUNNYVALE, Calif. (AP) -- Smart phone maker Palm Inc. on Thursday posted a wider-than-expected loss for its fiscal second quarter as sales of smart phones declined, sending shares tumbling more than 6... Tampa Bay Online Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:26:45 -0500PARIS (AP) -- France's efforts to digitize its culture, from Marcel Proust's manuscripts to the first films of the legendary Lumiere brothers, long have been bogged down by the country's reluctance to... Tampa Bay Online Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:26:34 -0500By Dawn Tay THE next time you click on an unfamiliar website ending with .sg, think twice. Spam masters are zeroing in on the .sg domain. Singapore was singled out as the 10th-riskiest domain out of... Asia One Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:25:38 -0500BOSTON ? Mutual funds that bet exclusively on technology stocks are the star performers of 2009. Tech sector funds are up an average 57 percent this year. That's more than twice the increas... Sign on San Diego Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:00:37 -0500Last week, TSA placed five employees on administrative leave and launched a full review to determine how an improperly redacted copy of the agency's manual for airport security screening was published... U.S. News & World Report Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:59:40 -0500A microblogging service that had parts of its Web site copied by a Microsoft-operated rival said it may sue the software maker. "We are currently looking at all possibilities on how to move forward... Tech Web Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:54:27 -0500Facebook's decision to open more of its members' information to public view unless they actively take steps to limit their data's exposure. "More than 100 million people in the United States subscr... Tech Web Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:54:26 -0500SSTP ) is pleased to report that a team of professors, scientists and graduate students from the world-renowned Texas A&M University has independently analyzed its proprietary green energy tech... Market Wire Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:48:42 -0500Constellation Software Inc. ("Constellation") (TSX:CSU) announced today that it has been advised that eight of its officers, directors and executives have entered into agreements with a brokerage f... Market Wire Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:48:40 -0500EYSM ), a next generation Local Internet advertising and digital media Company, today announced that it has agreed on terms to acquire the one word generic Internet domain name Chiropractor.net for... Market Wire Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:48:33 -0500Investing for better times: We ask five experts five questions about how they're preparing to take advantage of an economic recovery -- and what they're doing just in case. Miami Herald Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:47:56 -0500LINDON, Utah -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Today, AccessData announced the release of distributed processing capabilities with its Forensic Toolkit... Fresh News Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:43:40 -0500More News on Technology The Ontario-based company said it earned $1.10 a share excluding one-time items in its fiscal third quarter, compared with 83 cents a share this time last year. Sales for the m... CNBC Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:41:08 -0500Crane Electronic Manufacturing Services . “GTC is a well-run company with strong margins that occupies an important niche in the military and defense market,” IEC Chairman and CEO W. Barr... Business Journal Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:39:26 -0500A $25.4 million federal stimulus grant announced Thursday will be used to build a 1,100-mile fiber optic network connecting the far reaches of Maine, bringing high-speed Internet to thousands of peopl... The Seattle Times Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:39:03 -0500BOSTON — Mutual funds that bet exclusively on technology stocks are the star performers of 2009. Tech sector funds are up an average 57 percent this year. That's more than twice the increase fo... The Seattle Times Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:38:11 -0500BOSTON -- Mutual funds that bet exclusively on technology stocks are the star performers of 2009. Tech sector funds are up an average 57 percent this year. That's more than twice the increase for the... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:33:53 -0500THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- Chip equipment maker Applied Materials Inc. said Thursday that federal regulators have given the green light to its acquisition of Semitool Inc. Applied... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:33:52 -0500U.S. Commerce Dept. Secretary Gary Locke speaks at a news conference, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009, in Orono, Maine, where he announced the distribution of federal grant money for a new broadband network i... Seattle Post-Intelligencer Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:33:45 -0500 | 
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